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Time tracking and invoicing for teams

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Harvest fills in the back office: time off, payroll and contractor payouts

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◆Current state
Harvest's redesign has given way to operational features. The Fall 2026 update lists Time Off with accrual rules and approvals, dark mode, a Gusto payroll integration, contractor expense reimbursements paid through Stripe, and recurring or milestone billing on Fixed Fee projects. Reimbursements are limited to eligible US contractors and USD accounts in this first release.
◆Where it's heading
The spring repositioning around profitability is now being extended into the money flows around a project. Time off, payroll hand-off and contractor payouts take Harvest from recording hours toward the administrative work that follows them, and Fixed Fee billing ties that work back to margin reporting. The in-season digests have become the clearest view of this, since the changelog itself carries few other entries.
◆Prediction
Harvest says more locales and currencies are coming for reimbursements, so that is the most concrete next step. Features the post lists as in beta are the other likely arrivals in the next digest.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Harvest ships Time Off, dark mode, Gusto payroll and payouts

    Unlike the summer digest, this edition reports shipped work: Time Off, dark mode, Gusto payroll, Stripe-paid contractor reimbursements and flexible Fixed Fee billing. It marks Harvest's move from the redesign into back-office operations.

  2. 4mo ago

    In Season: The latest from Harvest, Summer 2026

    A periodic 'In Season' roundup of what shipped, what's coming, and where Harvest wants feedback — a communications digest rather than a release itself, recapping the redesign and Premium work.

  3. 6mo ago

    Inside the new Harvest

    The 'new Harvest' begins rolling out: a redesigned interface plus new features. A substantial UX overhaul that fronts the upmarket repositioning, though the underlying capability shift lives in the accompanying Premium tier rather than the redesign itself.

  4. 6mo ago

    A fresh Harvest

    The pre-rollout announcement of the redesign — a cleaner, faster interface and requested features — teeing up the 'new Harvest' launch a week later.

  5. 6mo ago

    A fresh Harvest

    A duplicate of the 'A fresh Harvest' redesign announcement, crawled a second time from the blog URL; no additional content.

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  6. 7mo ago

    Industry leader award (PR, not a release)

    PR-style post about Harvest being named a Leader in time tracking and project cost management. Marketing content rather than a product change.